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"A secured blockchain" is hilarious in concept to me. Looking at cryptographic constructions in general, 'secure' tends to mean "some multiple of the current total computing power of the world, running for hundreds of thousands to billions of years, might be able break the system".

With blockchains we have "a subset of the current compute power on the planet could start subverting it immediately".




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